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Child Labour in Peshawar
Abdullah is only eight years old but he works nine hours a day to make bricks in a factory near Jalozia, a camp in Nowshera district for internally displaced people (IDPs).
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Khyber's musicians in hiding
Hanif Afridi, 30, looks at first glance like an ordinary Peshawar taxi driver – in fact there is more to him than meets the eye. While sitting with him in his yellow cab, he played one of his songs, Meena Rakawa ow ma la meena rakawa (give me love), on the cassette player. His melodious voice, with lively instrumental backing, filled the car and spilled out onto the streets of Peshawar.
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Leaving Waziristan
Despite the relative peace of Peshawar, Fazal Habib, still suffers from waking nightmares. “Whenever I sit down to eat, I am reminded of my home in Waziristan. It often happened there that while breaking a piece of bread we would hear some noise, the sound of a drone overhead or some violence nearby, and run for shelter leaving our food.”
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Illegal logging in Swat
Abdullah sits roasting green, salt-covered corn over an open fire. Though he is only fifteen, he runs a small cabin for tourists visiting Swat. All around are steep, thickly wooded slopes and opposite a huge mound of rubble – all that remains of the once-grand PTDC Hotel, destroyed by militants during the recent fighting.
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Analysis and special features
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The real Taliban
Say “Taliban” and people around the world think instantly of thickly bearded, gun-toting men in turbans. However, the word “Taliban” is far older than the armed movement that appeared in 1994.
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The wrong kind of Islamization
For more than 25 years Pakistan's politicians have used Islamization as a tool to accomplish their own ends. Now it is time for politics and Islam to go their separate ways.